Word: affectionateness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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So far so good. But Capra comes to grief in over-playing Tracy's love for people, a remarkable love that is shown swelling up within him as he gossips with a barber and watches a radio technician chewing gum. But the most fantastic demonstration of earthy affection appears when...
The Houses and the Union will ballot at noon and evening meals, while dudley polls open for lunch only. Mimeographed material of all kinds covered bulletin boards and warmed its way under door-jambs yesterday, as candidates tried to outdo each other in originality and affection for the electorate.
From the viewpoint of the eldest daughter, the affection of Mama for her family is a very real thing --and so it is presented. The plot closely approaches soap-opera funny business in places, but any hokum is carefully avoided by careful character delineation and a constant vote of the...
The major faults of "Mourning Becomes Electra" are its length and its unrelieved intensity. One either takes O'Neill on his own terms or doesn't, but anyone with a glimmer of affection for America's Great Dramatist should enjoy this, his supreme theatrical achievement. It has certainly been provided...
The Naked City (Universal-International) is the last, and in some ways the best, of the late Mark Hellinger's pictures. It opens with a magniloquent sunlit air view of Manhattan and with Hellinger's voice, talking of his town with as happy pride and affection as if...